News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-14

An exchange says: The great
trouble with American journalism is
that the men who know just how
newspaper ought to be run are unfor-
tunately engaged in some other bust
ness-driving stage, digging post
holes, herding sheep, or acting as
deputy sheriff or alderman.
Three young men obtained licenses
to marry the same girl at Blue Springs,
Florida, the other day, and third sue
ceeded in capturing the prize.
The Bar HarbOr, Me-, correspond
ents report that the resort will enjoy
a continuation of last years prosper
ity. Nearly all the rooms in the ho-
tells and adjoining cottages have been
secured.
A st. Louis man who was struck by
lightning two weeks ago first became
unconscious, and was afterward affec-
ted by numbness. Two days later he
was affected by violent spasms, which
are increasing. His body seems to be
charged with the electric current. He
suffers frequent shocks, as from bat
terry, and imparts the current 10 those
who come in contact with him.
Some of the trees of Arkansas have
peculiar properties. The fruit and
roots of the buckeye are used by In
dians on their fishing excursions.
They put the fruit and roots in a bag,
which they drag through the water,
and in an hour or so the fish rise to
the surface dead. Cattle die after
eating the fruit or leaves. Man eats
the fruit of the papaw, but hogs
won't. The fruit and bark of the
bay tree are supposed to be cure for
rheumatism and intermittent fever.
Louis L. Lorillard has taken pos
session of the magnificent villa at
Newport bequathed TO him by Miss
Catherine Wolfe. Since the death of
Miss Wolfe he has learned that dur
ing his two years absence in Europe
she instructed her agent, who was
buying treasures for the adornment of
the house, to consult his tastes in all
matters, in order that ne might be the
better pleased when he came into pos
session. Every day he finds stored
away in the commodious closets of the
villa surprises in the shape Of costly
embroideries or bric-a-bac, of whose
existence nobody seems to have
known. The whole story is almost
chapter from the "Arabian Nights"
Gov. Hill, of Albany, N. Y, has
signed the only liquor bill of all that
were given him by the Legislature. 1t
prohibits the sale Of liquors, wines,
ale or beer in quantities of five gal
Ions or upward in those cities, towns
or villages wherein the local authori-
ties do not grant single retail Ii
cense. Under existing laws the SELL
ing of liquors in quantities of five gal
Ions or upward is not regulated or
prohibited, nor is any license required
therefor. The Governor says the
bill carries out the principal of local
option. It permits each locality to
determine for itself whether there shall
be any wholesale as well as retail
liquor selling within its borders.
A great many people use their
mouths too much, some in eating,
some in drinking and some in inordi-
nate speech, such as Boosting, tattling
and other fool talk. Another very
bad use of the mouth is mentioned by
one who shows that even the silent
mouth may do much harm: There are
lazy ways Of breathing and one-sided
ways of breathing, and the particu-
larly bad habit of breathing through
the mouth. Now, the nose was
meant TO breathe through. and it is
impurities out of the air, and for
changing it to a suitable temperature
for entering the lungs. The mouth
has no such apparatus, and when the
air is swallowed through the mouth
instead of breathing through the nose
it has an injurious effect on the lungs.
Two years ago A. G.. LANCE fed to
Canada from Muskegon, Mich, with
100000 belonging to L. G.. Mason,
for whom he worked. He finally went
Kellert was sent to shadow him.
Lange recently found employment with |
the firm of Mcintosh & Co., at Mon
treal, and Wednesday was sent to
Coaticook, only 10 miles from the
Vermont frontier. The detective got
wind of the trip and sent a man to
Coaticook, who told LANCE that the
representative of the firm whom he
had come to see had gone fishing, and
he kindly offered to drive LANCE to
the pond. The defaulter fell into the
trap and was driven straight over the
border into the States and there ar
rested.
A woman in St. Louis who had a |
drinking husband, cured him of the
habit of frequenting a certain saloon,
where he met a party of boon COM
panions, by the following expedient:
There was a large party in the room
one night and her husband was the
jolliest Of them all. He was just tell
ing how he had fooled his wife with
story of an extra examination he had |
to pass at the Custom House that
night, when the door opened and in
she walked with one-year-oId baby |
in her arms. She didn't say word |
and the party sat like statues, while
she went up to her dumfounded hus-
band, placed the baby in his lap,
wound his limp arms around it, and
walked out without giving the others a
glance. The silence continued about
a minute, while he thought over the
matter. At last he got to his feet
with the baby in his arms, looked at
his comrades helplessly, and then
went out and took a street car home.
He was not seen in a saloon again.
4 bank vault expert says that there
are not exceeding half dozen first
class safe robbers in the country, and
that he knows them all by their work
One of these men might as well leave
his name behind as a mark of his
work, and he can't very we'll destroy
all trace Of it. The following is Civ
en- In illustration: 81 remember one
case | was called on to investigate in
Ohio. / looked over the work ana
remarked, "Well, if | didn't do this
myself it was my old boy He had
learned his trade under me, and !
knew every mark he made. The de-
tectives worked the case up on that
cline. he was arraCta6 foupJ ur;I+,,